This Is My Job - High-Tech Rancher

New Mexico State University's Corona Range and Livestock Research Center is not your average ranch. An impressive array of remote sensors and systems helps manager Shad Cox monitor his elusive herds and their diets--once a far more laborious task. "We used to huddle in a pickup truck from dawn to dusk, jotting down notes," he says. "Now we never use a pen or paper."

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